DHS Buys 4,554 California Detention Beds for $1.5 Billion as ICE Expands Deportation Capacity
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 7
DHS Buys 4,554 California Detention Beds for $1.5 Billion as ICE Expands Deportation Capacity
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 7
Summary
$1.5 billion bought DHS two California detention centers with 4,554 beds, giving ICE direct control of two of the state's largest immigrant facilities.
DHS said the purchase used funds from Trump's spending bill to support mass deportations and to preserve detention space in California, where sanctuary policies and pressure on private prisons limit ICE's options.
CoreCivic closed the sale earlier this month, expects about $1.1 billion in net proceeds, and plans to keep operating both sites under existing ICE management contracts that could be revised.
The California City and Otay Mesa facilities are key to a state network of eight ICE centers holding nearly 9,000 people, though both sites have also faced detainee mistreatment lawsuits that CoreCivic denies.